Terrified Quotes - Page 10

• Fear is the deep motive of abstract art - fear of a repellent civilization which is dominated by the power of things. ... who can be surprised if, more sensitive than the others, the artist is terrified by the power things have acquired over us?

  Storm Jameson

  Art, Civilization, Sensitive

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• I have never been able to be so allured by the prospect of advantages or so terrified by misfortunes, swayed by honours or fettered by affection, nay not even so smitten by the fear of death, as to enter upon marriage.

  Elizabeth I

  Able, Affection, Fear Of Death

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• I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril.

  James A. Michener

  Religious, Men, Atheism

  James A. Michener (2014). “The World Is My Home: A Memoir”, p.283, Dial Press

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• I'm terrified about psychic people who have their little shops.

  Mads Mikkelsen

  Psychics, People, Littles

  Source: collider.com

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• Every time women make tremendous strides, the right wing gets terrified and creates laws making it hard to get an abortion or birth control.

  Erica Jong

  Law, Wings, Abortion

  "Erica Jong on Feminism for the Future". Omega Institute Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2014.

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• I myself become terrified of death when I am in a negative state of mind. But the thought of death ceases to bother me once I become productive.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Mind, Negative, States

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• A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef's book about improvising but a real home cook's book with a real home cook's pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing.

  Sally Schneider

  Real, Book, Home

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• The first problem for all of us, men and woman, is not to learn, but to unlearn. We are filled with the popular wisdom of several centuries just past, and we are terrified to give it up. Patriotism means obedience, age means wisdom, woman means submission, black means inferior: these are preconceptions imbedded so deeply in our thinking that we honestly may not know that they are there.

  Gloria Steinem

  Change, Learning, Mean

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• I do believe deeply that all human beings, male and female, are sexual beings, most likely bisexual beings channeled this way and that by cultures terrified of boundary crossings without passports stamped gay or straight.

  Robin Morgan

  Believe, Gay, Bisexual

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Anatomy of Freedom: Feminism in Four Dimensions”, p.129, Open Road Media

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• Bad art is maintained by the neurotic, who is deadly afraid of authentic art because it inspires him to go on living, and he is terrified of life.

  Rebecca West

  Art, Inspire, Goes On

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.113, Open Road Media

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• All actors are terrified - they just learn how to control it.

  Lauren Bacall

  Actors

  Lauren Bacall (2005). “By Myself and Then Some”, Large Print Press

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• The real trouble with the doctor image in America is that it has been grayed by the image of the doctor-as-businessman, the doctor-as-bureaucrat, the doctor-as-medical-robot, and the doctor-as-terrified-victim-of-malpractice-suits.

  Shana Alexander

  Real, Doctors, America

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• I think the actor has a tribal role as the archetypal story teller. I think there was a time when the storyteller, the priest, the healer, were all one person in one body. That person used to weave stories at night around a small fire to keep the tribe from being terrified that sun had gone down.

  Ben Kingsley

  Healing, Night, Thinking

  "Ben Kingsley Talks Oliver Twist". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. September 20, 2005.

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• I was too terrified to notice she [Shelley Long] had breasts. I do remember that I was eating a sandwich.

  Shelley Long

  Long, Sandwiches, Remember

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster.

  John Green

  Parent, Matter, Patient

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• When you spent so much time being terrified that you're going to get something, and then you have it, you don't have to be terrified anymore.

  Danny Pintauro

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• I've long suspected that one of the reasons why human beings haven't yet figured out how to carry on a conversation with bottlenosed porpoises, African gray parrots, et al. in their own language is quite simply that we're terrified of what they might say to us - not least because it's entirely possible that they'd be right.

  John Michael Greer

  Long, Might, Als

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• Sometimes, directors are afraid to stop shooting, because the second you stop and say, "We got it," and move on, you'll never get another chance. And they're terrified to get in the cutting room and not be happy. So they just keep shooting.

  William H. Macy

  Moving, Cutting, Rooms

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In fact, [Gene Wilder] had made a hysteric seem considerably less funny in his film debut as a terrified undertaker in "Bonnie And Clyde." And neurotics soon became his stock-in-trade, whether he was playing the weird title character in "Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory..."

  Gene Wilder

  Character, Chocolate, Titles

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The further he raided, the closer he came to the other rooms. Those unused, cobwebbed chambers of her heart. Would he dare to venture there? She doubted. Jumping off a cliff was a flashy sort of courage, but a man would need true strength and valor to break through those padlocked doors. There were dark, uncharted spaces within her that had been built to house love, and even she was afraid to explore them. Terrified to learn just how vast and how achingly empty they truly were.

  Tessa Dare

  Love, Heart, Dark

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• How weak our mind is; how quickly it is terrified and unbalanced as soon as we are confronted with a small, incomprehensible fact. Instead of dismissing the problem with: "We do not understand because we cannot find the cause," we immediately imagine terrible mysteries and supernatural powers.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Mind, Facts, Causes

  Guy de Maupassant (2015). “Guy de Maupassant – The Complete Works: Short Stories, Novels, Plays, Poetry, Memoirs and more: Original Versions of the Novels and Stories in French, An Interactive Bilingual Edition with Literary Essays on Maupassant by Tolstoy, Joseph Conrad and Henry James”, p.1740, e-artnow

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• People I've interviewed say they're terrified there may be boycotts of their [the Kochs] products, which include so many household items that everybody's familiar with, things like Stainmaster Carpet and Dixie Cups and Brawny paper towels and Lycra.

  Jane Mayer

  People, Paper Towels, Dixie

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I had no identity [when I was 27] - I was terrified that somebody would ask me what I was doing, and I would have no answer.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Identity, Answers, Ask Me

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• I just think that also controlling women is a way to control the whole narrative. And so I think when you've oppressed a people for a really long time, you're terrified to give them any power because they may have some reflection of how horrible you've been and you're terrified of being treated that way. All that we want is to be our best selves, but that's hard for them to understand.

  Lizz Winstead

  Reflection, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• When it was offered [a role in The Flash] I just thought it sounded like the perfect thing that I would want to do. Then they announced it online the day after and I was terrified, because I hadn't read anything, I hadn't shot anything. What if I'm awful? What if they fire me on the first day? But what I discovered was a bunch of really happy actors who want to make the best show possible, because it's fun. Not for any other reason.

  Tom Felton

  Fun, Fire, Perfect

  "The Flash: 9 questions with Tom Felton". Interview with Ed Gross, www.empireonline.com. October 3, 2016.

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